Senior Creative Project Manager (Pleasanton, CA)

Our Customer is a software vendor of cloud-based ERP that practices human capital management and financial management applications. They offer products and services that allow customers to oversee time tracking, procurement, employee data, financial accounting, and expense management at any time and anywhere. They continue to offer enterprise-level software solutions for financial management, human resources, and planning. Their proven methodology, expertise, community, tools, and education help ensure your organization’s success.

We are seeking a Senior Creative Project Manager on a contract basis to help support our Customer's business team.

The Sr. Creative Project Manager (PM) role will help coordinate the traffic, workflows, and capacity for creative design and production projects within marketing—interfacing regularly cross-team and with agency partners to ensure a seamless and consistent brand-to-demand experience.

The role requires someone with strong communication and organization skills, who is highly self-motivated, detail-oriented, and open-minded—with a drive to optimize processes and maximize efficiency. This individual will exhibit a high level of initiative, working independently and in support of department goals and business objectives.

This individual will serve as a core connector and will identify and engage all project stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. They will lend support to ensure contributors are motivated and enabled to deliver their best work, on time—ensuring project sponsors provide clear and complete requirements. The Sr. Creative PM will anticipate what a designer needs to fulfill a given request and can effectively identify/rectify gaps in advance of assignment. Similarly, they will provide rigorous quality assurance to ensure client specifications are met prior to delivery.

This position reports to the Creative Director, Demand Generation.

This role is onsite in Pleasanton, CA.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate all design work for the Demand Generation team.
• Coordinate project deliverables between Demand Gen, agencies, and marketing.
• Set up and manage creative projects and tasks in Workfront.
• Act as first-line point-of-contact for creative project inquiries and escalations.
• Hold weekly status meetings and manage the daily task and approval schedules.
• Ensure thoroughness and accuracy of incoming project docs and creative briefs; request additional information as needed.
• Establish Workfront schedules with the Creative Director, creative team leads, contributors, and other team members.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Project Management (PM) procedures; eliminate redundant efforts and introduce efficiencies into the brand-to-demand creative process.
• Review submitted design deliverables for stylistic consistency and standards compliance; provide approvals and/or guidance as needed.
• Track budget spend against allocation; assess usage and make quarterly recommendations.
• Ensure timely issuance of purchase orders and invoices and approve work reports.
• Manage production and vendor team(s) working on a given project; analyze project output and provide reports.
• Host regular conference calls and in-person meetings with stakeholders and reviewers to ensure cross-team alignment.
  
  

Skills And Qualifications

• 7 years in Marketing and Project Management
• 7 years experience in marketing Account Management or Creative Project Management on a B2B account, in-house agency, or creative marketing department
• Excellent organizational skills
• Flexible / Self-starter / Proactive
• Amazing people-management and networking skills
• Deep knowledge of the entire marketing creative and production process
• Deep knowledge of creative marketing campaign development
• Fluency with Workfront and similar PM platforms
• Experience with Google Drive/Docs/Sheets, Slack, Outlook, Figma, and Creative Cloud
• Smart Sheet knowledge is a plus
• Logical thinker with can-do attitude
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Strong team player in a multi-cultural environment
  
  

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.